Winnemucca Indians: SaveTribalLands
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The Tribal Council of the Winnemucca Indian Colony in Nevada are asking for your help to save their homelands and to create a model community that is earth friendly, green constructed, powered by solar and can even operate off-grid!
The ancestral home of the NEWE SOGOBI' TDOS-A-WEE, Shoshone People of the Earth Mother White Knife is the Winnemucca Indian Colony which is led by Chairwoman Judy Rojo and governed by a 5 member Tribal Council including Kathy Hasbrouck, Ruth Nihoul, Misty Morning Dawn Rojo-Alvarez and Mary Oliveira.
In 1917 - 1918, Winnemucca Indian Colony lands were set aside by President Woodrow Wilson for the Shoshone people. The reservation is 320 acres.
Now, one hundred years later, we are needing to raise $113,744 to help us overcome having been just about completely unfunded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for nearly all of the last 20 years. Yet, we remain committed to moving forward on creating a healthy, green & sustainable community and we need your help to do it! Our first goal is to raise $6,000 immediately.
Today our request to you is URGENT - we are struggling against great odds with little resources and we need your help now.
While nearly all federally recognized tribes, like the Winnemucca Indian Colony, are supposed to receive annual Aid To Tribal Governments (ATTG) funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to help us care for our lands, people, culture and economic needs - from the early 2000's to now the Winnemucca have received only about $50,000. Equivalent to less than 25 cents a day to provide for each tribal member and leaving zero dollars for anything else like health, education, housing or caring for our environment.
We have worked hard to get things set right with the BIA since a tragedy that happened in 2000 , but for nearly two decades the community has had to struggle to provide for itself and care for its 320 acres of lands with almost no funding.
In 2014 a federal court confirmed our leadership of the Winnemucca Indian Tribe - yet even since the federal court ruling the BIA has still provided little or no funding to the Tribe each year.
In 2018, we are coming to you for help - to help us begin to raise the money needed to provide a community building for the Tribe and to plan a sustainable, green, and even entirely or partially "off grid" tribal community with housing and commercial spaces!
Your donation will go to help the tribe meet its day to day costs and help us bring in other matching funding to build the community we envision and to clean up some of our tribal lands that others have used as a dumping ground.
Many people, tribal members, and mainstream friends, have given thousands of hours of volunteer and pro bono services to help keep the Winnemucca Indian Colony going during the last 20 years.
Your help will mean the Winnemucca Indian Colony will have a chance to hold onto and care for our tribal lands and not have them abandoned as some folks may hope would happen. Instead of becoming weaker while waiting on the federal government to meet its obligations to us - we are turning to you to help us become stronger and to take the steps we can together to build the world we want to see.
Our ancestors have lived in these lands since time immemorial and we need your help to provide a place and a way for our children and grandchildren and the coming generations to continue to call the Winnemucca Indian Colony home.
P.S.
It is important when considering making a charitable donation to a federally recognized tribe that you know the folks you are dealing with are authentic and the legitimate representatives of the Tribe. No other person except the Tribal Chairperson and Tribal Councilmembers listed above, or their designees, have the right, role or responsibility to enter any agreements on behalf of the Winnemucca Indian Colony.
Winnemucca Indian Colony
595 Humboldt Street
Reno, Nevada 89509
You can find the Winnemucca Indian Colony listed as a federally recognized tribe here and if you would like more information on making charitable donations to tribes as confirmed under Section 7871 of the Indian Tax Status Act of 1983 please feel free to email us.
Wanda Jean Lord, of Lord & Associates has agreed to set up this GoFundMe site because of the written authorization of Tribal Council to ask for help on the Tribe's behalf and all monies raised will go to help the Winnemucca Indian Colony as agreed.
The ancestral home of the NEWE SOGOBI' TDOS-A-WEE, Shoshone People of the Earth Mother White Knife is the Winnemucca Indian Colony which is led by Chairwoman Judy Rojo and governed by a 5 member Tribal Council including Kathy Hasbrouck, Ruth Nihoul, Misty Morning Dawn Rojo-Alvarez and Mary Oliveira.
In 1917 - 1918, Winnemucca Indian Colony lands were set aside by President Woodrow Wilson for the Shoshone people. The reservation is 320 acres.
Now, one hundred years later, we are needing to raise $113,744 to help us overcome having been just about completely unfunded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for nearly all of the last 20 years. Yet, we remain committed to moving forward on creating a healthy, green & sustainable community and we need your help to do it! Our first goal is to raise $6,000 immediately.
Today our request to you is URGENT - we are struggling against great odds with little resources and we need your help now.
While nearly all federally recognized tribes, like the Winnemucca Indian Colony, are supposed to receive annual Aid To Tribal Governments (ATTG) funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to help us care for our lands, people, culture and economic needs - from the early 2000's to now the Winnemucca have received only about $50,000. Equivalent to less than 25 cents a day to provide for each tribal member and leaving zero dollars for anything else like health, education, housing or caring for our environment.
We have worked hard to get things set right with the BIA since a tragedy that happened in 2000 , but for nearly two decades the community has had to struggle to provide for itself and care for its 320 acres of lands with almost no funding.
In 2014 a federal court confirmed our leadership of the Winnemucca Indian Tribe - yet even since the federal court ruling the BIA has still provided little or no funding to the Tribe each year.
In 2018, we are coming to you for help - to help us begin to raise the money needed to provide a community building for the Tribe and to plan a sustainable, green, and even entirely or partially "off grid" tribal community with housing and commercial spaces!
Your donation will go to help the tribe meet its day to day costs and help us bring in other matching funding to build the community we envision and to clean up some of our tribal lands that others have used as a dumping ground.
Many people, tribal members, and mainstream friends, have given thousands of hours of volunteer and pro bono services to help keep the Winnemucca Indian Colony going during the last 20 years.
Your help will mean the Winnemucca Indian Colony will have a chance to hold onto and care for our tribal lands and not have them abandoned as some folks may hope would happen. Instead of becoming weaker while waiting on the federal government to meet its obligations to us - we are turning to you to help us become stronger and to take the steps we can together to build the world we want to see.
Our ancestors have lived in these lands since time immemorial and we need your help to provide a place and a way for our children and grandchildren and the coming generations to continue to call the Winnemucca Indian Colony home.
P.S.
It is important when considering making a charitable donation to a federally recognized tribe that you know the folks you are dealing with are authentic and the legitimate representatives of the Tribe. No other person except the Tribal Chairperson and Tribal Councilmembers listed above, or their designees, have the right, role or responsibility to enter any agreements on behalf of the Winnemucca Indian Colony.
Winnemucca Indian Colony
595 Humboldt Street
Reno, Nevada 89509
You can find the Winnemucca Indian Colony listed as a federally recognized tribe here and if you would like more information on making charitable donations to tribes as confirmed under Section 7871 of the Indian Tax Status Act of 1983 please feel free to email us.
Wanda Jean Lord, of Lord & Associates has agreed to set up this GoFundMe site because of the written authorization of Tribal Council to ask for help on the Tribe's behalf and all monies raised will go to help the Winnemucca Indian Colony as agreed.
Organizer
Wanda Jean Lord
Organizer
Bakersfield, CA